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The Lower Coast Gazette.DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE LOWER COAST: AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FISHERIES AND COMMERCE.VOLUME I. POINTE-A-LA-IIACHE, LA., SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1909. NUMBER 12.DEATH LISTINCREASESWork of Terrible Cycloneat Brinkley, Ark.Mayor Appeals for Aid-Stoves,Building Material, Food andBedding Badly Needed.Brinkley, Ark.--Brinkley is wiped out.The proud and prosperous little cityof 4,000 people is a tangled mass ofwreckage. Not a building in the business section of the city has been leftintact, not a residence but that has suffered in a fearful cyclone which sweptthe place Monday night, leaving deathand desolation in its wake.More than fifty people are known tohave perished in the storm.Damage enormous.The property damage is enormous.Conservative business men estimate thedamage at more than $1,000,000. Morethan 2,000 houses were wrecked, or partially wrecked, by the great wind. Everybusiness house is in ruins, every church,save one, is destroyed, and there ishardly a home that has not at least suffered the loss of roof or wing.First Work One of Mercy.The first work was one of mercy.Mayor Harry Jackson took commandof the relief committee, Dr. E. D. McKnight was assigned to the position ofchairman of the doctors' committee. Before it was hardly day, relief committees were coming from all directions.Each brought physicians and nurses,armed with medicines andt supplies,eager to help in the work.In the few houses still standing it iswell nigh impossible to start a fire, because chimneys were among the firstthings to go and the situation is terriblein the extreme.The Catholic Church and the Greenlee building, the latter minus a roof inparts and otherwise damaged, have beenconverted into hospitals, and here thedoctors are 'Working with the injured:Many of the citizens are badly hurt, butdetcmined to help those worse off thanthemselves, have refused to go to thetempotsry hospital.. ')ii t of the, dead 'were caught in thewrecked buildings, and erpshed almostbeyond recognition. The family of IsaacReed was almost completely wiped out.Reed, his wife., and their two sons, Russell, aged 16, and Raymond, aged 12,S rrd, instantly killed. Miss Murlie Reed,a daughter, alone escaped death, but sheS is seriously fljured.Did Cyclone Stunts.Straight across the city from thesoutheast to tlhe northwest swept thewarring elements, leaving death and destructien in their wake. The tornadojtmpqpl, turned, writhed and twisted likea thing endowed with life, judging from, the wreckage which marks its flight.: It let . no path, as is usual with eyelopesj ; but spread itself out over a widearea and embraced the e-',re townw:" -tbia Its deadly grasp.It ilrst struck the residence portion ofthe city. Cottages, two-story frame and- t lfit. dwesllinags crumbled beneath thesmighty rnus h of the winds. Trees were":> iuprootld sand carried hurtling throughthe asir for hmundreds of feet, crashing through filmsy wooden walls as if they. .b-heen so much cardboard. Telephonepale were snapped short off at thei grIJil and tossed abot, timhe streetslr. lpipe stems.Its ruck the bbuiness. seetion withevier-uereaslng violence. Solid brick andI, oarete storehduaes fell crashing to theS ground before its fuiry. Heavy awnings,~ tedhtsO hd even the front walls of manystoes,; tin roofs and flying debris of allkinl;d:t t tbhe air, while the elements. rag. : a-nd a, rain fell in torrents., People Panmc.Stticken.SMen, women and children ran screamlug knd terror-stricken into the streets.Thbh city was in. total darkness. The" riakley igbht .and Power Compan' wase .e iof the Arst plants strucek by thestorfa., It was 4emollased and its wires,--_ iei ,w.with the telephone and telegraphydIrg~ spread over the pound In a verathi: snetwork of steel, iron and copperusir, bands sought for wives and wivesS oueght for children. Brothers cried. loud to mothers and sisters, and as theIb iury of the wind died away to aSteady and ominous roar, their screams,ith thoee of the injured, rang" ot .'plereingly In the ilmost Stygian arkness, Strong men paused, shuddar'ed sad khew not What to do or where o ge Wesoen sank down in the streets,i kh biad become veritable torrents,brjn ~their -ehldden to them, andup mi* prayers for the deliv- 'of their lfers,i- )* reation wnae in another moment.:sntw sad teaees were secured.Ttm a linmajain Woman Golfer.seated before the are Ialof the eaty celub, -io okedaTlpP t h ela thd t greens andail-torwia at thler alit sits.cod :-.ma -at t -o their w."at.auiuppleUse' sad to theirI~~iae~i· andiSearching parties were organized, andat 1:30 o'clock a myriad of flickering,flaring, fitful lights danced about overthe scene of unspeakable desolation andruin which unfolded itself to the eyefor brief moments as the brilliant andvivid flashes of lightning pierced thesombre. heavens.The rain was pouring in torrents,lashing the face and hands with stinging force.Daylight Exposed the Horror.Not until long after daylight hadcome to add horror to the desolate pie.ture of woe and ruin, showing in startling relief the terrible havoc wroughtby the tornado, was the body of CharlesFrenz, the fifth victim of the businessdistrict, found. Frenz was purchasinga pair of shoes in the Foote & Gazolastore when it was struck. His bodywas found about 10 o'clock, lying crumpled into a heap about midway of theruins.There ere were thirty funerals in Brinkley Thursday. Coffins are arriving onevery train, and undertakers and theirhelpers kept busy preparing for theburials.Two Hundred Convicts.A special train loaded with one hundred convicts arrived from Little Rock,making two hundred prisoners now here.They will be put to work cleaning upthe debris, and the work of rebuildingthe town will begin at once, as soon asmaterials arrive.The Cotton Belt railroad has 300 ofits carpenters and brickmasons from different points on the system rushing hereto assist in the work of rebuilding thetown.The Rock Island sent out a call for asimilar number of workmen from alongits lines, and they will be rushed here.Stoves Are Needed.Aside from food and bedding, the people most urgently need a car load ofstoves on which to cook, tarpaulins tocover up the front of their stores andto hide the leaks in the roofs of thehouses yet standing, andt tin roofing.Martial law prevails with all its rigor.The soldiers will not let any one throughthe lines who does not possess a passsigned by the provost marshal.Food Now Available.The soldiers hav, established a largecook tent in the middle of the town, andall those who have no means of subsisting are being fed at the expense ofthe State and the relief committee.Mayor Jackson Calls for Aid.Mayor T. H. Jackson has issued thefollowing appeal:"To the Public-In response to manyinquiries concerning the terrible calamity which has befallen our city, I wouldlike to say that the list of dead, so farrecovered from the wreckage, numbers35, and wounded over 200. There isnot a house in the city, either businessor residence, that has not been damagedby the cyclone. The entire business portion is lost, and only three buildings areleft standing."In response to many offers of assistance, I would suggest for immediatetemporary relief, that furniture, somebedding, blankets, tarpaulins, shinglesand other roofing material be sent us.The latter is in urgent demand becausethere is not a dry roof in the city toprotect the wounded and homeless."In the way of permanehit relief, Iwould say the greatest benefit could bedone our unfortunte people by shipmentsof building materials, such as lumber,shingles, roofings, brick, sand, etc. Manyof our people will be able in this wayto assist themselves, and start living,with the prospect of regaining lost fortunes or, at least, preparing places toshelter themselves. Both the RockIsland and Cotton Belt railroads have.greed to bring to our relief, all consignments of this, or any other nature,free of charge. It will possibly requireseveral hundred carloads of buirdingmaterial to repair our city, as there isnot a mill or factory that is not completely destroyed."T. H. JACKSON, Mayor."DONAGHEY'S MESSAGE.Arkansas Governor Quickly Acts AfterVisit.Little Rock, Ark.-Little Rock partiesreturping from Brinkley say they neverWitnessed a more desolate scene in theirlives than what hey beheld theire. It isimpossible to describe the havoc causedby the storm. At the request of Gov.Donaghey the legislature will at onceappropriate $10,000 for the relief of thesufferers. Gov. Donaghey's message asking for the appropriation follows:"To the Thirty-seventh General Assembly:"I have just returned from Brinkley,where the recent cyclone has eamsed somuch loss of life apd property, and Ifind there is urgent need for immediaterelief to those. who were maimed andcrippled, tbgether with the remaining in,habitants, who are suffering for lackof food and shelter."I therefore recommend that you makean apprbpriation to be immediately available to those entitled to the same of themumnof $10,000."journaliet, "look litke the deuce beside you men! You men have a reguIrtion golf suit, just as you have aregulation evenaing dress-. But wewomees disfigre the linksLin an oldskirt and a sweater. Where Is thefuture Worth or Paquin who will inyent for women a golf dress at oncenrea~ t an.d elega.t"Popular There.Jn ;a msanof any agrat ubas ell et B elf"*WHITE SNUBBED TAFITS6MBASSADOR TO FRANCE WILLBE LET OUT.Story of Taft Honeymoon-WhittRefused Honeymooners Ticketto Court Function.Washington.-Amibassador White is tostep down and out diplomatically, andanother is to have his place at the Frenchcapital. There is a moral in this passing of Air. White, and the story thereof"should teachl the reader to be caireful ofthe stranger within his gates, lest inthat stranger he entertain all unawarean angel or one who is sprouting subsefquent wings to become an angel.It was in 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Tafthad just been married and were traveling through Europe, wrapped in thoserainbow folds of sentiument folk call a"honeymoon."The Tafts in the course of their enraptured rambles came to Vienna. Therethey found Mr. White. The latter gentleman was secretary of the legation forthe United States.There was some function, whereof royalty would be the center, coming offupon a near afternoon. Mr. T'aft askedMr. White to see about an invitation.To procure such invitations was notamong' things impossible. Mr. Whitecould .have had thein at a merest hint.Upon; the morning of the royal function Mr. White sent a note to iMr. Taft.It ran in practically these words:"I am sorry' to inform you that Iwas unable to accomplish what youasked. The affair is very exclusive. Thenumber of invitations is limited andthey have been ordered sent only to persons of imuportance and distinction. Ienclose, however, tickets to the museumand trust that airs. Taft and yourselfwill spend a pleasant afternoon."Mr. Taft -still has that White letter.It has become, although not filed, thebig document in what might he called"the case of Ambassador White."BISHOP HOSS HAS RELAPSEWound From Operation Gives HimTrouble.Baltimore, Md.-It will be likely several days, 'and it may be a week or twobefore Bishop E. E. Hoss, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is able toleave the Johns Hopkins Hospital Thebishop underwent an operation for aninternal trouble a month ago and it wassaid that he would leave the hospital atleast ten days ago, but new complications set in last Saturday and since thatday lie has had a high temperature andconsiderable pain from the wound whichwas made at the time of the operation.The bishop takes his relapse very muchto heart and it grieves him quite a bitto know that he has received this suddensetback.WAR CLOUD IS LOWERING.Nicaragua and Salvador Assume,Bellieose Attitude.W'iahington.-Fouur hundred marinesfrom Panama and 200 from Guantanamoare held in readiness to be rushed to,Honduras and Nicaragua borders in case,as is threatened, Nicaragua should attack Costa Rica or use the Honduranterritory, which is neutral, for the transport of troops. The state departmentholds that the treaties existing betweenMexico and the United States and theCentral American republics demand thatthere "shall always be peace betweenthese republics," therefore it is the function of Mexico and the United Statesand it is their right to forcibly preventNicaragua from making war.SCHOOL CHILDREN WORK.Prises Offered Result in Cleaning Streets.Charlotte, N. C.-Over 2,000 schoolchildren worked like Trojans gatheringup every stray bit of trash, broken glads,pottery and brick bats that could befound high and low, in a contest forprizes offered by the Wonman's Club tothe child raising the largest heap ofrubbish. As a result many of thestreets of the city hive trash piledwaist and head high along the gu;tersready for the city wagons to conieyto the erematory.The chief of the sanitary departmentstates that it may relquire a week forhis department, working with the fullstreet force, to get rid of the accumnulated rubbish.DEATH CLAIMS GEN. PALMER.Founder of Colorado Springs. His Estate is Worth $16,000,000.Colorado Springs.--en Win. J. Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, died athis country seat, Glen Eyrie, west of thecity, late Sunday. Death came as aresult of a fall from a horse in October,1906, which resulted in breaking hiisback. Gen. Palmer often lias been calledthe foremost citizen of Coloralo. Heleaves an estate valued at $15,000,000.Misunderstood.SThe Hobo-'Scuze me, ma'am, butI'm orful hungry, an' if youse'll gimmea ehanst t' workThe Lady--Certainly. There's thewoodpile and an ax.The Hobo-'Scuze me ergin, ma'am,but I was erbout t' say if youse'Ul gimme a chanat t' work youse fer mebreakfast, I'd be much erbliged.Go' at Task Cheerfully.There Ii nothing so easy but i~t beeoaes.ditali!¢t when you do it with re.t eren -4erenlce.THE MARATHON HABITlu4NT ý. -' ..ýrtarrAýSIRE'G I.A¶463 - ' ýtmu U"i,3c''Niiri/ rr1urn&~~woo VOA;WA) ?P D .Ai -'- it I " aW (IIC~~T~L(RI~2Ar 1Y y.~TTAFT USES BIG STICKSEVERS DIPLOMTTIC RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA.Warships Ordered to Patrol Coast ofCountry--Mexico Is ActingWith United States.Washington.--wing to the continueddisturbed conditions in Nicaragua andPresident Zelaya's 4,ailure to make serious efforts looking to the settlementof the Emery claim, the state department has broken off diplomatic relationswith that country.Affairs in Central America have beenclosely" watched by the American andMexican governments, both of whichhave now come to an understanding thatthe time has arrived when drastic measures should be enforced to insure peacein the Central American republics.Ambassador La :Barra, of Mexico,spent some time at the state department Friday, in conference with Assistant Secretary Wilson, and the determination was reached that if the Americanwarships now in ioati'agnan waters andto be sent there are not sufficient to impress President Zelaya that the treatyof peace entered into between the Central American republics is to be livedup to, more radical steps would be takento accomplish that result.PLEADS FOR RACE SUICIDEOhio Leader of W. C. T. U. WantsQuality Not Quantity in Children.Cleveland, O.--"Let's quit raising children till we can take care of those wehave. Let's abolish sentimentalism andsubstitute common sense. In race suicide, so-called, lies the salvation of therace."Such is the plea of Mrs. Sarah K.ILMeredith, recording secretary of theOhio VW. C. T. U., who has stepped tothe front as an advocate of race suicide."Quality, not quantity," is the keynote on which Mrs. Meredith bases herarguments. "I believe it is next tocriminal," she says, "to scatter the doctrine, 'Marry and raise a family,' without taking into consideration whetherthe man and woman are fit to marry,and whether the future of tne children-at least in a measure-is assured."BOUND, GAGGED AND ROBBEDFormer Hotel Keeper RoughlyTreated by Masked Men.Galesburg, Ill.-W. L. Bennett, a former hotel keeper of Hot Springs, wastaken from his boarding house hereThursday night by three men who professed to be United states deputy marshals. Placing loaded revolvers at hishead, they forced him to go to a shantyin the outskirts of the town, wherethey bound him with copper wire andmade this fast to screws in the floor.They {hen robbed him of diamonds valuel at $500 and a large sum of money.Left there, it was some time before hecould break loose and make his way tothe nearest house, still partly boundwith wire.FRANCE FACES DEFICIT.Paris.-France, like the United States,is confronted with a big deficit in herrevenues. The situation is rendered themore serious by the large number ofsocialistic projects involving heavy draftson the treasury. The budget of 1909necessitated the issue of $12,000,000 intreasury bonds, while the regular estimates for 1910 show a deficit of $45,600,000, and this without taking intoconsideration the proposed workmen'sold age and state railroad' employes'pension proposals, which together involvethe sum of $37,800,000 more.BISHOP HOSS WORSE.Unexpected Complications Causing GreatPain set Up.Baltimore, Md.-The official statement is made that Bishop E. E. Hoss,who was operated on at the Johns Hopkins hospital more than a month ago,his for several days not been restingso well, owing to the fact that an unexpected complication has arisen. Whilethis will delay: his eonyvalescence andentails a great deal ot pain, his physicians consider, it of A.a temporary na~turez,TRUST SLASHES PRICESEFFORT TO CRUSH INDEPENDENT STEEL MAKERS.John W. Gates Will Probably Headthe Independents in Fighton the Trust.New York.--In its rate war on the independent steel makers, the Steel TrustThursday made further reductions in theprice of its products. It cut the quotations for tin plate from 25 cents to 30cents a box, or $5 to $6 a ton, and forsteel plates it made concessions of $1to $2 a ton on the reduced price of $ia ton. In brief, it put the prices to alevel on which it was said few independent manufacturers could exist.The reason for the extra reduetion,an official of the trust said, was "toget business." The cut to $6 a ton forstructural pieces and steel plates hadbrought out some orders, but the independents had met that cut and weregetting their usual proportion of business. Similar conditions obtained, itwas added, in other branches of thetrade.Under these circumstances, the trustdecided to make further reductions andto carry on a relentless war against theindependents, underbidding them wherever possible.With all these threats in the air, arumor was circulated that the independents could combine under the leadershipof John W. Gates in an organization forself-defense, if not for aggression.Gates, it is known, has never forgiven the Steel Trust men for the manner in which they forced him to surrender his holdings in Tennessee Coaland Iron at the time of the recent monetary panic.PLAN BIG LAND SALE.Government to Hold ApplicationsUntil Next Fall.Washington.-If the present plans ofthe department of the interior carry,there will be one of the biggest landsales in Oklahoma next October that thenew state has ever witnessed. The newplan of the department is to hold upall applications for sale of the surpluslands of the allotteel until that time,and bunch them for a big land openingsale. The present system of selling thelands of the restricted Indians has neverbeen satisfactory to the government. Itis believed the land-opening idea, coupledwith the payment plan of four annualpayments, will draw thousands of farmers who want to make homes in the newstate, and will make the lands bringhigher prices.WILL BUILD FOUR DREADNOUGHTS.London.-The eagerly awaited Britishnaval estimates were issued Friday. Acompromise won the da3) for (Le rstimates provide for a total expenditure of$175,713,500, an increase of $14,116,000over the estimate of 1908-09.The new building program providesfor four Dreadnoughts, six protectedcruisers, twenty torpedo boat destroyers and a number of submarines, the latter to cost $5,000,000.DICKINSON TO GO TO CANAL.Niw War Secretary Will FamiliarizeHimself With Work.Washington.-Secretary Dickinson, itis expected, will soon be sent to Panamato familiarize himself with the canal andall conditions surrounding it. Thisstatement is made by a high administration official. Soon after he comeshere President Taft, Col. Goethals andSecretary Dickinson will confer aboutthe canal. Some changes in the organizatitn are expected.Japs Return Home.New York.-K. Yamasaki, acting consul general of Japan, announces that thereport of the department of foreign affairs of Tapan, which has just beencabled to him, shows that during themonth of February, 1909, ninety-fourmore Japanese returned home than entered the mainland of the United States,and fifty-two more Japanese returnedhome than entered Hawaii. Mr. Yamasaki said the mode of travel showed thatthe largest proportion of those Japanesereturning home were of the worklnage~lshTEXAS ASSEMBLY IN CHAOSOne Member Expelled and SpeakerAsked to Resign.Austin, Tex.-The senate of the Texaslegislature expelled Senator Thomas as aembenlr of that body by it vote of 21to S, on grounds that he had maliciouslymaligned members of the senate, charging that they were grafters and corruptionists.The house, by a vote of 71 to 48,asked Senator Kennedy to resign in consequence of alleged official misconduct indrawing money for clerks not in attendance upon the legislature. Instead ofcomplying with the request Speaker Kennedy mounted the rostrum, assumed thegavel and announced the official hour foradjournment had arrived, and he declared the legislature adjourned sine die.die.(Gov. (ampbell issued a proclamationreconvening the legislature in regularsession, and Speaker Kennedy after adjourning the regular session, announcedthe special session ready for business.PRAYERS BROUGHT CYCLONERevivalist and Congregation AskedWarning Catastrophe.Cuthbert, Ga.-The cyclone whichstruck this place Tuesday night, destroy.ing over 300 buildings, killing six persons, injuring twenty-eight, and leaving300 families homeless, came in answerto prayer, so the church folks assert,and was sent by God to warn the townto eschew evil and purstes righteousness.For a week before the cyclone a greatrevival was in progress, and there werenightly prayers for God to send cycloneor earthquake to warn the unrighteous.On the night of the cyclone nearly 1,000persons were present at revival serviceand the cyclone came while a ferventprayer was being made for God to sendstorm, earthquake or some other sign towaken the wicked.When word reached the elurrch of theawful wreck and the appalling propertyloss, the preacher made a strong appealto the people, and in the darkness criesand supplications went up to God mingled with shouts of victory. Thursdaya praise service was held that God hadanswered their prayers and melted thestony hearts of the people.KENTUCKIANS AFTER REWARDEx-Gov. Taylor Was to Be Gagged,Bound and Shipped in Coffin.Indianapolis, Ind.-Ex-Gov. W. S. Taylor of Kentucky, still a fugitive here,heard for the first time Thursday hownarrowly he escaped from being kidnapel, bound, gagged and nailed in acoffin, to be shipped to Louisville, wherethe ventilated coffin was to.be openedand Taylor arrested, charged with themurder of the late Gov. Gobel.The plan was laid bare by Col. Burch,field, of Lexington, Ky. It failed, saidCol. Burchfield, because the IndianapolispoTce, who were friendly to Taylor, gotwind of it and furnished guards nightand day for the Kentuckian.Lured by the $100,000 reward for therefurn of Taylor, several soldiers offortune of Kentucky, came to Indianapolis, rented a vacant house to whichTaylor was to be transported in a cabany opportune moment he could beseized and stored the coffin in the vacanthouse. In this house Taylor was to bebound and gagged and nailed in thecoffin. An inquisitive real estate agentwho wondered why the men who rentedthis house, did not move in, spoiled theplan.TO RESTORE 3-CENT RATERepresentatives of Eighteen Railroads Meet in St. Louis.St. Louis, Mo.-Representatives of thepassenger departments of eighteen railroads met here Thursday to consider theadvisability of restoring the old 3 centsa mile rate, made legal by the decisionagainst the Missouri 2-cent fare lawrendered by Judge McPherson in Kansas City on Monday.J. M. Johnson, vice president of theSt. Louis, Iron Mountain & SouthernRailway, who was chairman of the conference, said that the railroad men hladreceived a communication from Attorney General Major of Missouri, askingthem to appoint a committee to conferwith him before definite action wastaken.Women Still Missing,New Orleans, La.--In their efforts tofind three women, the wives of wellknown men, who hare been missing fordays from their homes in New Orleansand one of its suburbs, the police admitthat they have been unable to obtainthe slightest clue that would lead tothe solution of any of the mysteriouscases.SThe women are Mrs. E. W. Blaker,Mrs. P. II. Thibeaux and Mrs. John S.Edmonds. Mrs. Thiebeaux's husbandhimself disaplpeared from home Thursday.Would Boom Country Life.Guthrie, Okla.-The Southwest Interstate Commission on ('ountry Life, calledat the suggestion of the National Commission, "*to create new interest in farmlife and to improve social conditions inthe country." began a two-days' meeting here today. Missouri, Kanas,. Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana are representedl. I;reat interest hIh bee,, imanifested Iby the people of (Ikihoma in lthemeeting, and farmers from surroundingcounties and towns are here to discusstheir affairs and to formulate somejscheme to better their conditions.MECCAS FOR ARTISTSCAROLUS DURAN TELLS THEM TCGO TO PARIS AND ROME.Famous Painter Says One Has Timeand Chance to Think in the Eternal City, But He Goes toParis for Sensations.Paris.-One cold December morninta wondering maid, rubbing her eyesbrought coffee and hot water at anunearthly hour while the fashionableworld of the Bois was settling itselDfor a final sleep, and I took an hour'sjourney across Paris over to the Latinquarter to see Carolus Duran comeup from Rome for a few days inFrance. For many long years he hasbeen at the head of the French Aerdemy at Rome, teaching, but paintingas well, as is testified by the long listof great pictures, among the best ofthe present centrry.It was only nine o'clock, but he wat ialready in his studio, the one he keepsalways in Paris for his frequent visits. He was at his desk opening letters, giving directions to, his secretary, and receiving one by one a lit.tile coterie of old friends and students.They had been there for some timewaiting for him in a small receptionroom where a kindly concierge hadmade a bright fire on the hearth, giv.ing warmth to a room already peo.pled with living canvases of the master, hanging on the walls.After the others were gone, and theletters all opened we had a little talkin the big studio, a small pipe organat one end and a grand piano at theother, draped with a curious Indianshawl. Large canvases'and small oflovely female forms and. masculinefaces full of dignity and characterA Vcaught the attention. But only momentarily. The master himself wasthere, sitting In a high-backed .l@chair which might have come from aFlorentlne palace; an erect fiaregracefully carrying its weight of yearuThe personality of the man filled theroom, the personality of the master.One felt that whatever other permomight happen to be thereg CarotusDuran would still be the one towardwhom all eyes would be turned. Awlone felt that it he gave an order, itwould not be disobeyed. One couldreadily imagine his pupil, John Bargent, great enough himself to beranked among the masters, bowing htishead before Carolus Duran and doingas he was told,But Duran does not want to be always obeyed. He insists upon his pupils following their own initiative."Each person mupt march alone Ifthe is to accomplish anything," he said."In painting, the most difficult of allarts, he must learn how to take hissteps, of course; he must study longand patiently and learn how to walk,and he must learn this from others.Then he must go his own way as hesees it most clearly."I come to Paris often, although Ihave been in Rome over 40 years. Ido not think Paris is better for an atrtist than Rome, or Rome better thanParis. Each gives its own."Paris is better for the beginner. Helearns in Paris how to feel, and no onecan paint or write or do anything inart who has not learned to feel, tohave sensations. I came to Paris forits sensations, for the new world ofthought and activity centered here, forthe plays at the theater, for the booksthat are being written, for the menand women that make Paris whatlt is."But in Paris there is too much bustle and business for me as a matureartist, too much electric light, telegraphs, telephones, hurrying trainsand rushing people."I go back to Rome to reflect uponwhat Paris has given me. Rome htranquil, with the peace of ages resting upon it, and a message from itsstores of antiquity that falls uponthe soul sweetly, soothingly. One hastime and chance to think."But certainly one must not be calmand tranquil too long. One must notstay too long in Rome. There are thevoices of the present."Let the artist learn his grammasin Paris, let him come then to Romeand learn how to speak. Then let himgive his message to the world stampedwith his own individuality. Somethingso much his own that he got it neitherfrom Paris, nor from Rome, nor fromany other place, but from the depthsof his own souL"